Hydrocarbon burner



. J. FIDUCCIA. SR

HYDROCARBON BURNER Filed May l5. 1923 ilu/(11,13%

Patented Oct. 'i'i 1924.

PATENT OFFICE.

JOSEPH FIDUCCIA, SR., OF NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA.

HYDROCARBON BURNER.

Application filed May 15, 1923, Serial No. 639,125.

To all whom t may concern.

Be it known that I, JOSEPH FLmUcorA, Sr., a citizen of the United States, residing at New Orleans, in the parish of Orleans and State of Louisiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hydrocarbon Burners, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to the particular type of hydrocarbon burners in which oil and steam or air are mixed before combustion and has for its primary object to provide a burner with improved means for effecting the thorough and complete atomization of the fuel to obtain the maximum of heat properties therefrom.

Another object of this invention is to construct an efficient hydrocarbon burner which will shear the oil head inside the burner and force the completely atomized air out into the combustion chamber with the use` of a minimum amount of steam or air agent.

A still further object of the invention is the provision of a hydrocarbon burner having the property of discharging the atomized oil spray at a gradually widening angle with great velocity and even density from the burner.

Other objects of the invention will appear in the following detailed description taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification and in which drawings:

Figure 1 is a perspective of the burner.

Figure 2 is a vertical central section of the hydrocarbon burner.

Figure 3 is a bottom plan view of the top member.

Figure t is a front view of the burner.

Figure 5 is a plan view of the base member.

In the drawings, wherein similar characters refer to similar parts throughout the several views, A designates the top member of a burner; B, the base, whilel C represents the steam passage and atomizing chambers formed within the top member A.

Referring first to the top member A, such may be formed of metal with internal screw threads 6 or analogous means of attaching a feed pipe and having interior steam passage and atomizing chambers C, which may include a right angular passage 7 communieating with the steam feed pipe connection 6 and a balancing chamber 8. An atomiZing chamber or way 9 connects balancing chamber 8 with the outside of the top member A opposite the feed pipe attaching means and is flared outwardly, with its smaller portion adjacent balancing chamber 8.

Base B coacts with top member A and completely closes chamber 8 and way 9 at the bottom as shown in Figure 2. The base member B which may also be made of metal carries a similar feed like connection 10 which continues horizontally as at 11 for a distance within member B then angles upwardly to form portion 12 which ends at the surface of base B of atomizing chamber 9. The two members A and B are rigidly held together by bolts or similar means 13, and when in their operative position with respect to each other present an arcuate fuel feeding opening as shown in Figure 1.

In operation the steam passes into member A through passage 7 and into balancing chamber 8 where its pressure is equalized and allowed to pass out through the Haring atomizing chamber 9; Simultaneously oil is fed into the burner through ways 10, 11 and 12 and upon passing into atomizing chamber 9 from the angular portion 12 of the duct is out by the steam passing at great velocity and is atomized and spread at a gradually widening angle, with great velocity from the chamber 9 with even density and thickness. By atomizing the oil with a minimum amount of steam or air and cutting the oil head at an acute angle, the burner proves itself to be most eiificient. This action also performs a self cleaning function and the burner is not removed as often as others.

I claim:

A hydrocarbon burner comprising an upper section and a lower section secured to the upper section, said upper section having its under face provided with a recess forming an expansion chamber and a Haring outlet forming recess extendingy forwardly therefrom to the forward edge face of the upper section, a steam passage extending upwardly from said expansion chamber and a steain pipe receiving socket extending` into the upper section from the rear end `thereof and having a steam passage leading forwardly therefrom and intersecting the upwardly extending steam passage; the loWer section of said burner having an oil pipe receiving socket and an oil passage leading forwardl7 therefrom and having its forward end portion directed upwardly through the upper 'face of the lower section andeoininunioating with the outlet forming recess.

JOSEPH FIDUCCIA, Sn. 

